The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-03-03
AUCTION BUYING.

And some with smilee 1Cd seine with tears,
Good Words.
AUCTION BUYING.
It il well known that the best way
to get big prices for broken-down fur
niture. kitchen utensils, worn farming
implements and machinery. is to make
public sale Of them. offering some
months credit. There are always
enough persons SO susceptible to the
arts Of the auctioneer, and SO impress
ed with the advantages Of credit. to pnr-
chase the articles at more than they
are worth. These persons yield, to a
constitutional weakness. perhaps, and
If such is the ease. the only advice to
give them is to stay away from public
sales altogether. The others should
make, before the auction begins. 4 care
full examination Of the articles they feel
disposed to buy. and fix in their minds
q fair price for them: and then not &c
above that price. no matter how the
auctioneer may appeal to or taunt them,
or how much they may dislike to have
the other bidder beat them.
The implements and household fur.
niture offered are usually over-yalued
often by the most conservative OF men
It is very rarely wise to buy such Sec
ond-hand goods at any price: frequent
" Improbable to take them rs gift
| In nine cases out of ten, it is cheaper tt
buy new shoe, than TO have any con
siderable repairs made to the one yol
wear; and this is true Of farming nipple
ments and machinery.
An old wagon, reaper or rake, viii
cost more repairs than is worth, ant
will always break down when its doing
SO causes Inconvenience and loss Of val
liable time. Up to a certain point. re
pairs are judicious; but any implemento
machine much worn, is best cast aside
1t is far better to buy new pillow. Wagon
or reaper, than an old one ut the price
it brings at public sale. Many mel
are caught by the credit offered. The.
buy at an exorbitant price. things TO
which they would not pay fair one ha'
they to pay cash. Payday may be sew
eral months of, but it will surely b
met.
| This buying of articles for which tn
person has no need, simply because h
can get them on credit. is one of tn
greatest evils connected with publ
sales. Sometimes, as favor to a neigh
Dor, you may be justified in buyin,
something for which you have not a
immediate need; but never SO buy sim
ply because You do not have to pay tina
day, or because the auctiOncer looks 4
you. The best advice that can be give
to any man about to attend 4 public sal
| il, go slow. And he should take this /
heart. for the season of public sales
ut hand.
| BARLEY As A SPRING CROP.
| An Illinois correspondent OF tn
Country Gentleman says: BARLEY re
quires, as essential. clean land, stron,
land, and land in tirst-rate filth an
condition and containing SO much well
digested plant food rs will enable it t
make that rapid growth 50 peculiar t
its vegetation. In every case for tn
black soil the land for barley shout,
be corn-stubble, ploughed deeply il
the fall, and the surface stirred I'm,
fined three or four inches deep in tn
spring. as soon as the frost is out 9th
ground. The seed should be sown q
the rate of two and half bushels t
the acre, and for this latitude, abou
the middle of April or not so early. !
hard frost will kill the germ, whicl
once dead, unlike oats and wheat, vii
not start second time. At seeding,
big crop is assured, If 800 to 10
pounds of superphosphates are sewe
broadcast or with the seed.
Heretofore half the value of barle
crops has been lost in the harvest, til
, least discoloring from rain or dc,
greatly lowering the grade on the mark
ct. But thanks to the self-bindel
barley can be left to stand in the tiel
until fully ripe and then be cut. haule
and stacked in the same day, an
threshed at convenience. The essentis
points in growing barley, let me n
peat, are the recognition that the veg
. citation is very rapid, and therefore til
soil must be deep and rich one; tia
its capacity to stand draught and hea
in the after stages of growth, is fl
superior to oats and wheat, and there
fore the seeding may be delayed unit
all danger from spring frosts is OveI
that its radical system is weak on
shen compared with oats and wheat
and therefore the land must be not onl
filthy but clean, and finally, when =
these conditions are Conscientious
met, the yield is equal to oats at thei
! best and the worth per bushcl on til
markets as two to one.
Ifcultivat0rs could be made to under
sta,a that, if they would fertilize wit
thc phosphates. spring wheat could b
grown anywhere where winter whea
succeeds (the only difficulty being tbs
worn wheat soils are not rich cnQug
in plant food to provide for that rapi
growth necessary for spring wheat I
make in hot or even warm climates,
there would be less demand for barle,